Hi. I do have a boatload of rest/items, skill installed, mycroft.conf modified. A wonderfully large working openhab install but once I try to boot the mark1 it never gets beyond the yellow lights. Any help would be great!

Originally published at: http://mycroft.ai/blog/release-notes-v0-9-9-mark-boot-sequence/
Visual Cues during Mark 1 Boot Sequence (#1308)
The Main focus of this release was creating visual feedback during the Mark 1 boot
sequence. The eyes and faceplate now provide indicators of the stage of the system--so when you see any of the following, here's what's going on:
Spinning gray eyes
Indicate the system just started, Arduino running and Pi booting
Solid gray eyes
Pi booted
(Optional…

It is worth mentioning that the most recent update (18.2.0) is different, and for my Mark One at least, took MANY reboots for both packages, display firmware, and skills.

After running several previous updates, the extra steps came as a surprise - including a period with yellow eyes. The new eye colours with scrolling progress messages on the face LED matrix are actually pretty good, so to help set your expectations, here’s the official Mycroft upgrade instruction video:

From memory, custom config moved from /home/mycroft/.mycroft/mycroft.conf to /etc/mycroft/mycroft.conf